Cell Biology of Intracellular Adaptation of Mycobacterium leprae in the Peripheral Nervous System

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ABSTRACT The mammalian nervous system is invaded by a number of intracellular bacterial pathogens which can establish and progress infection in susceptible individuals. Subsequent clinical manifestation is apparent with the impairment of the functional units of the nervous system, i.e., the neurons and the supporting glial cells that produce myelin sheaths around axons and provide trophic support to axons and...

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